What is really going on in the dispute over judicial reform in Israel? What are they protesting?
We find 3 mitzvahs with no clear connection between them: don't make offerings to idols, don't mistreat a Ger, and don't mistreat widows.
“The cruel reality of leadership is that when things go wrong, you take a disproportionate amount of the blame.”
Is this a random selection of mitzvot, or is there a connecting theme?
Governments that prach equality enslave others without a second thought.
The Chafetz Chaim once said that world disasters are messages from G-d to do teshuva.
Why did G-d make a messy world only to dedicate an entire Torah portion to tell us how to clean up the mess?
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
One of the biggest lies about the Jewish People during the Holocaust is that they went "like sheep to the slaughter." This is not true.
“Return to who you are, return to what you are, return to where you were born and reborn again”
The written laws are not, however, the only expression of Jewish law. There is much more.
A spiritual revelation, a spiritual Torah, in the materialistic world. Man, even Isaiah, cannot comprehend. Moses asks to understand.
A person full of gratitude is a happy person whose gaze is focused on the good in his life.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: In what way is the work of a judge like creating the world?
Three Truths which compelled Jethro to join our People.
We are witness to the metamorphosis of western democracies as they change their colors to blood red antisemitism. What does this mean?
We have an image of what happened at Sinai: Moshe at the top of the mountain receiving the Luchos. But that's not what the Psukim describe!
No ego and no pretentiousness. Ego is an acronym for edging G-d out.
Read a variety of Torah articles on the parasha.
Why is honouring parents listed as part of the first five commandments? Why is the reward length of days in the Land of Israel?
The Israeli left has two choices: It can move or it can advance a vision of Jewishness able to re-enchant leftist Israelis. Op-ed
Why is there such an apparent emphasis on Yitro and his arrival when this week's parsha contains the Revelation at Mount Sinai?
Delving into the events surrounding this seminal and unconditional acceptance of Torah by Bnei Israel.
This is one of the places in the Torah where Rabbi Hirsch's philosophy of Torah and Derekh Eretz can be understood.
The role of the Assemblies of God evangelicals in creating and promoting “messianic Judaism” as conversionary subterfuge cannot be ignored.
How G-d saved the Jews from their worst enemies. Exceptions to total genocide.
The Sara Litton z”l Monthly Emunah Essay: You have undiscovered holy waters waiting to burst forth from within.
When we arrive in Heaven, G-d will ask if we saw His wonderful world. And what will we answer?
Most people say they keep the Ten Commandments but they don’t mention (or often don’t know of) the 613.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Tu B'Shvat: fruits vs. vegetables .Shirat Hayam (The Song of the Sea) as the basis for saying Hallel on Yom Ha'atzmaut and Jerusalem Day. .
Inisghts, facts and fun for Tu B'shvat.
What are some of the aspects of the holiday of trees?
What exactly is going on at the beginning of the story of the Man (Manna)??
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: How were the Mitzvot of Marah a prelude to receiving the Torah?
“Moses and the Children of Israel Will Sing...”
We need to show more respect to parents and grandparents.
The best leaders make everyone smarter.
Different aspects of the parasha for your enjoyment.
Women are those who welcomed the men returning from battle in ancient times.
There is a difference between how we behave as individual Jews and when we are a nation that is fighting for its’ land.
What brought the Israelites to think of Eretz Yisrael and the Beit Hamikdash in the Song of the Sea, when they have just been rescued?
There was absolutely no precedent, there was only faith.
A Jew can walk with head held high in New York, Moscow and Berlin because of the Medina.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
We can relive the event intellectually and positively in an historic vein but the emotional grandeur of the moment evaporates over time.
Why did Moshe take his staff with him to the top of the hill in the Amalek battle, as seemingly he did not perform any act with it?’
An ally of the West becomes a Vichy collaborator with Nazi Germany, yet God saves three quarters of France's Jews.
Five tips for dealing with the pain of the barbaric terror attacks we have just endured.
The question is not only will we survive difficulties, but also where we will find ourselves after they pass.
The Torah tells us that Moshe felt his people's suffering. Do not forget the Kedoshim hy"d who fell this past Shabbos evening..
Now that we have a government all of whose members support settlement in Judea and Samaria, it should all be done within a State framework
The dictators of our past century: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Arafat, never admitted to error and led their people to untold suffering
What purpose does making a mockery of those who mock Hashem and mistreat His people?
We are beholden only to G-d. Nothing else. No one can take our freedom from us. Only we can take it from ourselves.- and how to avoid that.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: The impurity of the Jewish people, as with the donkey, was only on the surface, hiding a great inner holiness.
What's so special about these Parshyot, that they deserve to be put in our Tefillin?
Depressing Time, Productive Time, and Redemptive Time.
The exodus from Egypt taught us that words, such as those spoken by Moshe and Aaron,are not enough to move masses of Jews to return home.
